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...MACBETH AND FRANKENSTEIN
QUEST FOR POWER (MACBETH WANTS TO BE KING, VICTOR WANTS TO CREATE LIFE)
-Both have great ambition, get carried away and do unethical things, resulting in the death of innocent people
HALLUCINATIONS
-Macbeth visions the dagger floating, and hears voices talking to him after he murders Duncan
-Victor thinks he sees the creature, but he's not there
SUPERNATURAL
-Witches in Macbeth
-The Creature in Frankenstein
DISLOYALTY
-Macbeth is disloyal to the previous king (Murders Duncan when he's visiting his home)
Frankenstein is disloyal to the being that he created and abandoned it
LACK OF APPRECIATION TOWARD HUMAN LIFE
-Macbeth wilfully takes the lives of others to gain power
-Victor Frankenstein creates life but doesn't consider that humans are more than flesh and bones
Their lack of appreciation of life results in the loss of their own lives.
Both Victor and Macbeth have great qualities. Victor is smart and curious. He wants to fight disease and discover the mysteries of nature. Macbeth has a high ranking in society and has authority. They are both very well off and have good families but get greedy and end up ruining what they have. Macbeth gets carried away with his experiments and ends up losing all of his family and friends, and dies in the end of the...

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To put Macbeth into perspective, you'll need to know a little about William Shakespeare and why the play is still so popular over 400 years after it was first performed.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon in 1564. His father sold gloves and became an important person in the town. William, one of eight children, was the eldest son and was probably educated at the local grammar school. He married when he was only 18 and his wife, Anne Hathaway, was eight years older than him. They had two girls and a boy (who died aged 11).
Nobody knows how Shakespeare began to write or when he entered the theatre, but we know that he became a leading member of the theatre troupe known as 'The Lord Chamberlain's Men'. The company proved very popular and later, when King James I granted them the right to...